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Six Sigma is a quality and project management methodology which aims at improving business processes. It was invented at Motorola, but has been used by most major US companies. GE, one of the early and most enthusiastic adopters of this methodology has saved over $10 billion dollars through Six Sigma Quality projects. According to the GE glossary, Six Sigma is "A vision of quality which equates with only 3.4 defects per million opportunities for each product or service transaction. Strives for perfection." Simply stated, if you were a producer of widgets, with Six Sigma you would aim at having only 3.4 broken widgets among 1,000,000 leaving your assembly line. To find out more, you can go here. |
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What is Six Sigma for Your Life? |
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Six Sigma for Your Life is a program designed to affect the quality of the day. As humans, we have relationships with the world around us: with the universe as a whole, people, organizations, even objects. Within each of these relationships we have interactions; sometimes these are physical, sometimes mental. Not just meeting a certain person, but even a single thought about that person could be such an interaction. Each of these interactions poses an opportunity: a healthy response would facilitate full use of the human brain, would be received in a relaxed and healthy body, and leave the individual feeling better. A defective interaction would cause a psychophysiological stress response based on fear, will shut down the body, reduce brain functioning and will leave the individual feeling worse. Many of these relationships and interactions are unconscious and based on projections. Six Sigma for Your Life aims at making these relationships conscious. It provides tools and mechanisms that can be used to reorganize life to the point where most - if not all - interactions, or opportunities, result in an enhancement of the individual's perception of self and reality. The goal is to reach Six Sigma, meaning only 3.4 negative interactions, or stress responses or "defects" in 1,000,000 opportunities. |
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Who is Six Sigma for Your Life for? |
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Just as Six Sigma as a quality standard can be applied in a variety of different projects, Six Sigma for Your Life applies to a variety of life situations. In general, it is applicable for anyone who is feeling that his or her quality of life could be improved. It is particularly for people in transition, who are in changing life or work situations, have specific goals they would like to achieve, or suffer from the sense that "something is missing" from their lives. It can also be applied in organizations, especially in times of change, such as mergers and acquisitions, changing business directions or implementations of new corporate strategies. Overall, the positive impact of personal development on the organizational bottom line has been demonstrated in a variety of organizational development programs. |
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In the past decades, a number of definitions of stress have been developed by researchers (e.g. H. Selye, R. Lazarus or S. Hobfoll). One of the most commonly accepted definition is following: Stress arises when a person perceives that he cannot adequately cope with the demands being made on them from the outer world or with threats to their well-being. It therefore results from an imbalance between demands and resources. |
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